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Did you go into the Mission? Or Hayes Valley? Or over by Jtown? And god help you if there is any sort of Event nearby. During the maker faire every iphone read "5 bars" but no one could get their iPhones to do anything. Oh sure, it said it was sending texts and trying to make calls, it said it was trying to load webpages, but it all failed.

We Are Not Making This Up; and it's not just iPhone customers.

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Yeah good point, I mainly use my phone for SMS/data rather than voice calls. So I probably don't have enough data there. I probably only had 3 or 4 voice calls. All of them were fine though.

Also I was at Google I/O, so there were probably 10,000+ phones all trying to get signals etc

And you're right, perhaps I'm assuming that my phone showing 5 bars actually means it has a strong enough signal to do stuff (Which is certainly the case in the UK) :/

The whole communications industry in the US seems like it needs a massive shake up from government to me.

Data is just as bad as voice in these regions. I don't now why people think it'd be much better.

Also did you make calls on your phone much? In the mission my phone shows good signal but on Saturday literally every call dropped. 15 dropped calls in a day.

Do you know if T-Mobile is any better in the mission?

T-Mobile is fine in the mission in my experience.

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